Wild edible fruits hold great potential for improving human diets, especially in agricultural
societies of the developing world. In Africa, a well-known supplier of such fruits is the …

Age estimation from molecular sequences has emerged as a powerful tool for inferring when
a plant lineage arrived in a particular area. Knowing the tenure of lineages within a region is …

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their efforts to confirm the accuracy and completeness of the information presented herein …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

Previous studies to resolve phylogenetic and taxonomic discrepancies of Hibiscus remained
inconclusive. Here, we report chloroplast genome sequence of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis …

The breeding of new, high‐quality citrus cultivars depends on dependable information about
the relationships of taxa within the tribe Citreae; therefore, it is important to have a well …

Abstract The Indian Ocean has long been a forum for contact, trade and the transfer of
goods, technologies and ideas between geographically distant groups of people. Another …

Fierce debate surrounds the history of organisms in the southern hemisphere; did
Gondwanan break-up produce ocean barriers that imposed distribution patterns on …

Background New powerful biogeographic methods have focused attention on long-standing
hypotheses regarding the influence of the break-up of Gondwana on the biogeography of …

Gesneriaceae are represented in the New World (NW) by a major clade (c. 1000 species)
currently recognized as subfamily Gesnerioideae. Radiation of this group occurred in all …